“The capriciousness of our sole foreign exchange earner is enough to tax our policy formulator and implementers to be more proactive in their forecast as to foresee the future.”

Franklin Ugbogu– Retail Sales Consultant at Jumia Nigeria

Nigeria and Oil: Looking Beyond Price Collapse Towards Post Recovery Savings (Part 2)

“Elon musk, CEO of Tesla argues that the combustion engine represents 19th-century technology that has outlived its usefulness. He believes that the era of fossil is over and plans to deliver 500,000 electric cars by 2020. There has also been advancement in technology of the shale gas industry which can lead to self-reliance for the energy needs of so many countries. Add electric cars to shale gas and oil might have no meaning by 2020. Nigeria should stop importing refined products and perhaps the demand in the international market may drop albeit minute. More importantly, oil should stop being the main source of our income.” 

Uchenna Ikegwuonu– Risk Engineer

“Once again Mr Austin Okere has done it , this article capture everything currently playing out in the disruptive divide GLOBAL …… ALL OTHER EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA SHOULD TAKE A QUEUE FROM HIM. I know being a visionary is a TOUGH JOB but some has to do it . Congratulation on CWG , MTN / DIAMOND BANK PLATFORM……”

Gafar Rotimi Anjorin– Chief Financial officer Panaramic Entertainment

Imperatives For Relevance In The Fourth Industrial Revolution

“This is thoroughly one of the most incredible articles I’ve read this year! Thank you! You have an impressive ability to explain this environment. The future belongs to the quick and nimble.”

Ty Simpson– Knowledge Technician, Perspective Coordinator, Reality Contortionist.

“Mr Okere’s topic puts everything in the right perspective. The story is same for IBM where they are focusing on the cloud and cognitive approach to the changes in how we will run the businesses today. Digitalization and intelligent data has also evolved rapidly with its contributions to driving the full birthing of the Internet of things, these are the very topics that we should encourage in Nigeria by supporting the wide growing digital platforms. We should not wait till the world moves over us before we roll out policies and financial support to the jobbermans, yellow account, e3rd party insurance, kongas and so many more. Truth be told but it’s a known fact that Amazon web services makes millions off Nigerian businesses by hosting them in their data centers all over the world. I know of a popular online platform that pays out huge dollars just for a particular type of hosting service in the cloud because it’s not available here locally. The major challenge is that government is not enjoying taxes from these millions of dollars already exchanging hands online through these sales! This is a bigger type of challenge governments will be facing if we do not take action to start our own home grown IT revolution. Thank you Mr. Okere.”

Olatayo Ladipo-Ajai– IBM Software Services Sales Leader Central and West Africa

“Dear Austin, I commend your thinking ability and vast awareness of innovation and “sharevalues” dynamics. This is parhaps one of the best Articles on innovation and change ever written by a Nigerian or at least that I ever stumbled on. Just as I glanced through your write up, I was provoked in my thought process and an idea emerged and it is capable of unleashing another revolution in providing micro-consumer-credit to millions through co-sharing…hmmmm I will contact you privately just so we may be able to share ideas. Keep the good works, I have known about your business around banking about 16years ago and I have known that it is only through continued innovation that businesses can be sustained in this highly paced changing environment driven by ICT Best of Luck”

Adebanjo Otukomaya– Area Manager at Skye Bank PLC

“Lovely, because this article contains a classic truth. Talking about Partnerships, Progressives and Moving Nations forward: Adam Smith says ‘Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.’ John Nash says ‘The best will come, when everyone in the group, does what is best for him self AND the group.’. I chose the later, and I am following you Austin, Lead on.”

Kanayo Ejiofor– Founder at Afrobus.com

Let the discourse continue.